Women and The American Experience, A Concise History
by Woloch, NancyEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-07-23
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary
The 2d edition of this concise history has been revised to incorporate continuing research in the fast-growing field of Women's History. Additions to the text include an exploration of women's experiences and roles in various ethnic groups as well as three new sections: "The Trans-Mississippi West", "Migrants and Immigrants" and "Women and the Law". Woloch's lucid, lively and thorough survey retains the same comprehensive style that has made it the best-selling narrative text in American Women's History.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Seventeenth Century: A Frontier Society
A Necessary Good
Housewifery and Trade
Servants and Slaves
Native American Women
Prophets and Saints
Invisible Furies
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 2: The Eighteenth Century: The Eve of Modernity
Wives and Widows
Character and Capacity
Legal Institutions
Diversity of Cultures
The Cradle of the Revolution
The Pursuit of Happiness
Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 3: Promoting Woman’s Sphere, 1800-1860
The Home and the World
Piety and Purity
Academy and Common School
Readers and Authors
Factory and Mill
City and Frontier
White Women in the Antebellum South
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 4: Benevolence, Reform, and Slavery, 1800-1860
Origins of Association
Moral Reform
Women in Slavery
Abolition and the Woman Question
Communitarian Alternatives and Legal Rights
The Women’s Rights Movement
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 5: Women at Work, 1860-1920
Civil War and Women’s Work
The Black Experience
The Trans-Mississippi West
Immigrants, Cities, and Working Girls
Women in Industry
The Union Experience
Office, Store, and Classroom
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 6: The Rise of the New Woman, 1860-1920
Shrinking Families
The College Woman
The Professional Woman
Clubwomen and Crusaders
Educated Homemakers
Social Housekeepers
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 7: Feminism and Suffrage, 1860-1920
An Independent Suffrage Movement
Finding a Constituency
The Argument Over Suffrage
Voices on the Left
Peace, War, and the Woman’s Party
Women and the Vote
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 8: Cross-Currents: The 1920s
Feminists in Conflict
Aspiration and Career
Migrants and Immigrants
The New Morality
“Pals” and “Partners”
Companions and Consumers
Contraceptive Politics
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 9: Emergencies: The 1930s and 1940s
Depression Families
Working Women
Women’s New Deal
“Front Page Woman”
The Impact of World War II
Postwar Prospects
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 10: High Expectations: 1950-1975
Suburban Housewives
Working MothersMixed Signals
Black Women in Postwar America
Civil Rights and Women’s Liberation
Legitimizing Feminism
Suggested Readings and Sources
Chapter 11: In Search of Equality: Since 1975
Feminism at Stalemate
Women in the Workplace
Families in Transition
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Diversity
The Gender Gap
Women and the Law
Suggested Readings and Sources
Index
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